Jintan District funeral customs of you who know!

Jintan District belongs to Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, which is located in the south of Jiangsu Province. Changzhou is an area that pays more attention to funerals. In the past, the main customs are:

In the old days, most of the coffin burial, the coffin used in some customized or purchased in advance, choose an auspicious day to erect in the home, while holding a ceremony, known as the "vertical life" (the coffin is known as the "longevity of the vessel"), the loved one is dying. The coffin is called "Shouwu" (the coffin is called "Shouwu"). That is, for the wipe body, change the coffin clothes, commonly known as "wearing old clothes". Wealthy people also incinerate a ride in a paper sedan chair, and paper sedan chairman two, commonly known as "burning sedan chair", after the gas is dead, the family wailed, the remains will be placed on the board, with a white cloth to cover the head, pointing the "Underworld Lights", placing the ruler, scales, mirrors, sieve and other things, before the board to put a table, place a bowl of half-raw half-cooked rice, and a bowl of half-cooked rice. A bowl of half-raw, half-cooked rice, rice inserted an egg, commonly known as "upside down soup rice", another three bowls of dried tofu, soybean crackers, green vegetables and other vegetarian dishes. Burning paper ingots, scripture scrolls, send people to friends and relatives to "report the funeral". Some people ask Mr. Yin Yang projected into the coffin auspicious time. Three or five days within the family wearing mourning, set up a memorial hall, friends and relatives door-to-door condolences, to send couplets, hanging scroll, commonly known as "open hanging". The family of the deceased shall give back to a white cloth, thrown on the ground, commonly known as "filial piety".

Before the coffin, the filial son went to the nearby river on his knees to take a basin or a bucket of water, and throw money in the river, called "buy water". Will buy the water back, for the deceased as a wash, where three times, said "drag three". Then the eldest daughter (or daughter-in-law) combed the hair of the deceased, crying while singing "combing the scripture". After combing, the comb will be put into the coffin for burial. General third day the body into the coffin, said "small coffin"; late that night, to paint the coffin, nailed on the funeral nails, called "big coffin". This day, the mourners do vegetarian meals for guests, the dishes must be tofu 100 pages, become "eat hard rice". Deceased God's main tablet, "the main" word of a point must be asked to dignitaries with a Zhu pen pro-point, known as the "point of the main". Funeral day, relatives according to affinity wear mourning clothes (divided into "five clothes", namely, chopped bad, Qi bad, big work, small work, fine linen), filial son wearing mourning, waist tie grass rope, hold "wailing stick" with the casket after prostrate; drummers play music, family and friends to follow! "Funeral". Throwing paper money along the road, called "road money". Where the funeral by the family often posted on the door "Jiang Taigong here no taboo" red paper strips, commonly known as "taboo code". Before the burial, a fire was built in the grave to drive away the humidity, which was called "warming the pit". After the burial, choose another way home, called "back to mourning", enter the door first "across the fire", eat cloud cake, drink sugar tea, take the family reunion, the meaning of sweet honey. During the funeral, the family set up a spiritual place to burn incense offerings, from the day of death 7 days for a sacrifice, the first seven to the end of the seven **** 49 days. 3 years of filial piety in addition to the full spirit (in fact, for the second anniversary), will be the Lord of the God's tablets to be placed in the ancestor's shrine, set off firecrackers, eat sugar rounds, take off the filial piety dress (old customary provisions of the funeral one year after the break in the white, two years in addition to the service, the dress of the mourning clothes from the white and yellow to the blue, mourning shoes are generally worn 3 pairs of white, 2 pairs of blue). This is the end of the funeral. Generally poor people with thin coffins and simple burial, no money can not afford to buy a coffin, only with reeds, straw mats, rolled, dug up the earth for the hole, hastily buried.